The Future War

My 40 year old husband really enjoys these book. As a fan of Terminator, he likes to read all of the various spin off books and he has really enjoyed these.

I have read every Terminator book written and all of them are pretty but this book connects all the movies and all the other books together. I don't want to give away anything in this review, but if you were ever wondering what happened just before Judgement day, during, and after, this is the book for you. It does NOT just jump around and leave alot for you to guess at. It goes into all the things you wondered about. How did Skynet build and progress after J-Day without human help....or did it? How did Kyle Reese grow up to be the man that he is? What were his parents like? What happen to many of the military personal that were NOT near major cities during the first wave of the attack? How did the resistance start? Who was for and against it? It ties into the movies RIGHT till the very start of T-1. The only bad thing about the book is that it is only 375 pages!! I wish it was longer. Now that they filled in ALL the gaps, I am wondering where it will go next..... I just hope where ever it goes that S.M. Stirling will write the book!

I picked this up on Monday morning and finished it later that evening. This is a must for a terminator collector and fills in a lot of the gaps of the movie series. This goes over the major engagements and events of the future war and it is quite impressive to read.There are parts in this novelization that are a little slow, but it gets made up for toward the end. I enjoyed reading about judgment day itself and it was an interesting thing to read about. I like how, in parts, this section seemed both humerous yet still frightening. I also enjoyed reading the final battle in the time displacement lab, it was quite enjoyable.I also like the way this ties up a lot of the mysteries of the movies and the other novels in this series. The novel itself is a wonderful addition to the terminator mythos and I hope that the new movie is just as good as this novel series has been.What I liked the most had to be seeing humanity come together to rise against the machines. This was, perhaps, the moral of the story: That we need to come together as people and the continuing narration on the triumpth of the human spirit. I enjoyed how well this was captured.I gave it 4 stars out of 5 because there are a few parts to it that are unnecessary. It does repeat itself at some points but it is still a great read. I recommend this book and the others of the series. This is a great prequel, in my opinion, to Rise of the Machines, and a sequel to Terminator 2 as it was intended to be. Be warned though, some of it is only understood if you read the previous two novels but they're just as good as this one.

Sarah Connor, her son John, and her lover Dieter felt destroying Clea before she activated Skynet had given them victory, but soon learn otherwise as the organic terminator managed to feed the discs to Skynet. Almost immediately Skynet concludes that humanity poses a threat to its survival and must be eradicated. Instead of complacency, Sarah and Dieter become concerned when the Pentagon announces Skynet will run all its weapon systems.Skynet begins experimenting to prepare for Judgment Day, when the advanced computer system fires all the nuclear weapons in its arsenal. Skynet starts the nuclear end run as Sarah and her loved ones hide in a fallout shelter. With human collaborators and terminator robots with advanced weapons on its' side, Skynet seems on the verge of victory. Only Sarah as a rallying point and her two cohorts lead a weak resistance that over the years is becoming stronger against a god-like enemy.T2 THE FUTURE WAR is a great action packed doomsday thriller starring three long time favorite heroes, but also provides well-rounded personality traits to Skynet so the audience knows this is an independent sentient essence. Sarah seems so much more than she was in past books and movies as she has turned into a profound leader, who recognizes she is an icon to the resistance. John has matured from his previous feelings of resentment and disbelief into the hope of the future. This finale (loosely put - need to read to understand why) is a winner as S. M. Stirling terminates the series with a triumphant doomsday thriller in which humanity fights to survive against a killing machine.Harriet Klausner